So the Health Commissar, Kathleen Sebelius, has decided that, under Obamacare, religious institutions, like any other employer, will be required to offer their workers free contraception, sterilization, and abortifacients. Well, there's a surprise. This entirely predictable news was received with stunned bewilderment by Obamaphile rubes such as the Reverend John Jenkins of Notre Dame, who in 2009 gave the president both an honorary degree and his imprimatur in exchange for the promise of a ...
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Ave atque vale
From our friend John O'Sullivan: Sometime in the early 1970s, Frank Johnson, later editor of the British Spectator but then a young parliamentary correspondent, came into my room at the Daily Telegraph and began waxing enthusiastic about a newcomer to Fleet Street, one Christopher Hitchens, with whom he had dined the previous night...
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Canada vs Free Speech
This time next week Mark will be Down Under for the start of his Australian tour. He'll be talking a lot about the themes of Lights Out - free speech and the twilight of the west. You can order your personally autographed copy exclusively from the Steyn Store - and don't forget it's also available in various Steynamite special offers, including our My Sharia Amour gift pack. Will Mark sing "My Sharia Amour" on stage in Oz? Wait and see...
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The Hugh Hewitt Show
Well, Henry VIII has his defendants. The Prince of Wales, a couple of years ago, who says we only have seven years and three months to save the planet, the Prince of Wales said that Henry VIII was in fact basically the first pioneering conservationist. And he certainly lowered Anne Boleyn's carbon footprint. So there is that...
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Steyn on Screen
VIDEO: Mark discusses his body of work with Peter Slen at Book TV...
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In the Corner
Everyone's favorite Gallic charmer is back in jail...
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In the Corner
From the military newspaper Stars And Stripes...
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In the Corner
Since Rick Santorum is a no-show at Hillsdale, I thought I'd plug some alternative entertainment. I'll be out Hillsdale way myself next month, but, before that, I'll be Down Under for my 2012 Australian tour, now extended to Perth and Adelaide due to overwhelming demand – well, okay, semi-whelming demand...
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Steyn on Culture
Have you seen the official White House version of what the New York Times headline writers call "A Responsible Budget"? My favorite bit is Chart 5-1 on Page 58 of their 500-page appendix on "Analytical Perspectives." This is entitled "Publicly Held Debt Under 2013 Budget Policy Projections." It's a straight line going straight up before disappearing off the top right hand corner of the graph in the year 2084 and continuing northeast straight through your eye socket, out the back of your skull and zooming up to rendezvous with Newt's space colony on the moon circa 2100...
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